The Day That Shook The World

[btavis]

Some more progress.

Gavrillo, the Bosnian soldier and the Turkish bystander are sculpted. The Archduke is almost finished, Count Harrach (on running board) is done and the other riders in the car (Sophie, General Potoriak and the chauffer) are in various stages of completion.

 

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Another shot

 

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Reverse angle

 

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Amother angle

 

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Here are Count Harrach and the Archduke.

 

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Another shot

 

[Guy]

Looking Fabulous Bob..........keep up the great work

 

[btavis]

Count Harrach was a member of the Hapsburg court and close friend to the Archduke. He rode on the left running board of the car to protect the Archduke after the morning assassination attempt. Unfortunately, while he would most certainly have thrown himself in front of harm's way, Gavrillo attacked from the right side of the car. Here, Harrach is lunging to throw himself to protect the Archduke.

Harrach incidentally was the owner of the Graef and Stift touring car they were all riding in. He had a very bad day in Sarajevo. He lost his friend, he could not protect the royals and his car was impounded by the Bosnian police. The descendents of the Harrach family recently sued the Austrian government to recover the car which had been out of the family's possession for over eighty years. They lost the suit.

 

[btavis]

By the way, disregard the paint on the figures as it is just my way of checking overall color theme while developing the piece. The only thing that is really painted is the Bosnian soldier's face so far.

 

[gordy]

excellent piece Bob and informative

 

[Pete_H]

Hey there, Alex! :lol: Dude, it's looking really good. I can already see the "lessons learned" from your last dio. Think you'll have this one done in time for MFCA? :lol: I too have a couple of the Hogarth books and they're truly essential for anybody who wishes to scratchbuild.

Sincerely,

Rex

P.S - your postings are too coherent and rational to be those of anybody else but your own

 

[btavis]

Originally posted by Pete_H@Apr 15 2004, 11:39 PM
Hey there, Alex! :lol: Dude, it's looking really good. I can already see the "lessons learned" from your last dio. Think you'll have this one done in time for MFCA? :lol: I too have a couple of the Hogarth books and they're truly essential for anybody who wishes to scratchbuild.

Sincerely,

Rex

P.S - your postings are too coherent and rational to be those of anybody else but your own

Not by MFCA but by Chicago. These dios are crash courses in just about everything related to modeling. I think I have found a niche that I like in every way and improvement from one to the next is hopefully a given. That and expert advice from so many fine modelers at shows and here at PF.

 

[btavis]

Here are some updated pics of my in progress dio:

 

[Guy]

This is really looking Super Bob.......have you done anything yet on the building / street scene?

 

[btavis]

Altogether for the street scene there are twelve figures in various stages of completion shown here. I added a Bosnian policeman attacking Princip with a Billy club. In addition are two women in typical Edwardian clothing. This will be the total number of figures for this portion of the dio.

Other figures that will be added will be the soldiers in the shadow box portion fighting in the trenches. I will not start on them until the street scene is further developed.

Two and a half months to get to this point so far. About four months to go :angry:

One challenge I will need to encounter: I need to make an opened umbrella that one of the women will be holding.

 

[btavis]

Originally posted by Guy@May 9 2004, 02:17 PM
This is really looking Super Bob.......have you done anything yet on the building / street scene?

Guy, not yet. That is actually the easy part. I needed to work on this section first with all of the figures so I know exactly how much space I need for the street. This will determine the overall size of the piece with the building in the background which forms the basis of the shadow box trench warfare scene.

I want the street scene to be compact to indicate more chaos and the fact that the street was full of people.

 

[btavis]

Incidentally, the temporary base is balsa foam which is ideal for being able to position the figures to see what the ideal posing should be. All the figures are pinned so I can just pop them in and out of the bals foam wherever I want. This will not be the actual base. Also whatever paint is on the figures is temporary as I like to see how the color scheme is developing at the same time as the sculpting and layout.

The car will be burgundy in color which I believe is going to provide a really rich central focus for the blues of the Austrian uniforms, the dark green of the Bosian policeman and the whites, blacks and grey of the other figures.

The flag on the car is temporary as well. It will ultamtely be the Habspburg/Austrian royal flag but the general color of the flag is that ochre yellow.

 

[Joe Hudson]

Hey Bob,

You and Jason amaze me with all the large dio's that you both do! I have to start on mine in the near future so that I can have it done for next year! I like the use of the balsa foam, this is something that I may give a try. I look forward to seeing the umbrella.

Joe

 

[btavis]

Originally posted by Joe Hudson@May 9 2004, 03:56 PM
I look forward to seeing the umbrella.

I think it will be a parasol. It was a hot summer day and a parasol would be appropriate for blocking the sun. It was not raining that day in Sarajevo.

 

[Roc]

Bob, I love the subject matter, good choice.

Roc.